An Estrogen Affair

Call for Papers

Demeter Press

is seeking submissions for an edited collection on

Disability and Mothering

Publication Date: Spring 2010

Editors: Cynthia Lewiecki-Wilson and Jen Cellio

We seek papers that explore the histories, practices, theories and lived realities of mothering and disability as they run parallel to, intersect with, complicate, and inform one another. Both disability and mothering are liminal experiences, placing one at a threshold or doorway, a boundary, verge, or margin that marks a potential interval of difference offering an opening to new perspectives. Doorways and thresholds represent spaces for transition and transformation, the possibility for sharing experiences and the fluidity of identity, in the crossing back and forth from one perspective to another. As a liminal experience, “mothering” can be thought of as an attitude or orientation, a set of practices arising out of relationality, rather than a stable identity. New reproductive technologies also expand definitions of “mothering,” but also raise questions about the future of the fetus marked “disabled” as well as the lives of people living with disability in an age of genetic screening. A key goal of this volume will be to examine the productive tensions brought to view by pairing mothering and disability.

We welcome varied approaches from across the humanities and social sciences including, but not limited to topics such as—Activism; bioethics, feminist ethics; constructions of identity, changes in identity, hybridity theories of identity; corporate workplace policies, insurance, day care, institutional care; disability/mothering in global and transnational contexts—e.g. immigration, diaspora, citizenship, national identity, homelessness; embodiment theories; feminist philosophies of care, dependency, or interdependency; film, literary, and media representations; ideological and social debates and tensions within discussions of “good” mothering/disability; issues

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